The Michigan Sign-Stealing Scandal Ends With a Whimper

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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The NCAA’s big decision on Michigan’s sign-stealing operation is here, and it is a nothingburger. To explain what happened and get a Michigan perspective on it (because it is very funny), Alex welcomes Jane Coaston, Crooked Media podcaster and Michigan fan, to discuss it. You can read the full infractions decision here if you would like some light PDF reading on your Friday. Can reasonable people finally agree on topics like whether Jim Harbaugh and Sherrone Moore knew what was up, whether the title was tainted, and whether Michigan really is a model program? Let us debate.

Producer: Anthony Vito

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0:00.0	We're coming, and we ain't backing down.
0:01.8	We don't need a bunch of cats in here.
0:03.4	Looking in the mirror.
0:04.5	Everybody just do your job. You understand that? Hey, will you shut up? I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today. Guys being dudes. And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man. Ah, fuck it. Thank you, Lee. It's a surprise. let's call it, non-emergency episode of Splitzone Duo for our
0:24.4	subscribers because the big news of Friday morning in college football can only be described
0:31.0	as not newsworthy in any way. And it was so not newsworthy that we decided we would do a little podcast about it
0:38.5	when we were waiting to see what would come down. The Michigan report is in from the NCAA.
0:44.5	It is, it's a good read, actually. It's a lot of pages. And my guest is here to have a little
0:50.4	laugh with me about it. Jane Kostin, welcome back to the program.
0:57.3	Jane, podcaster at Crooked Media, for our purposes,
1:00.0	one of the Internet's foremost Michigan fans.
1:00.9	How's your morning going, Jane?
1:03.0	It's been just fine, you know?
1:06.1	It's a little cloudy on Los Angeles, a little humid.
1:08.3	But other than that, good morning.
1:09.2	Great day.
1:10.4	Good to be alive.
1:10.9	So we knew that the Michigan decision was coming down this morning. And Richard and I were talking
1:16.4	about what we were going to do about this. And kind of from an editorial planning perspective,
1:20.6	it's been a weird week. I was out for most of the week. Just got back last night. You know,
1:26.5	been busy, not a lot going on.
1:28.6	Congratulations on getting married, by the way.
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